Scopely, Inc. is an American interactive entertainment company and mobile-first video game developer and publisher.
[4][5] Scopely also partners with intellectual property holders to create video games based on popular entertainment brands.
[6] Savvy Games Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), acquired the company in July 2023 for $4.9 billion.
[8][9] Previously, Elbaz co-founded Applied Semantics, which was acquired by Google in 2003, and Bulsara was a software developer at MySpace.
Scopely remains a strategic investor in Global Worldwide, who continues to operate and publish Kingdom Maker.
[29] In April 2013, Scopely launched Mini Golf MatchUp, a head-to-head game developed with New Zealand-based studio Rocket Jump.
[37][41] In 2016, the company partnered with Sony Pictures TV to launch Wheel of Fortune: Free Play, based on the television game show.
[42] Scopely announced a partnership with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2017 and launched the match-3 game WWE Champions.
[44] In 2017, Scopely's The Walking Dead: Road to Survival experienced programming-induced glitches which affected player usage and brought long wait times for matchmaking.
Scopely's game developers apologized and offered virtual items as compensation, but some players complained about the value of those gifts.
[46] In 2018, Scopely had four top-grossing games: WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Wheel of Fortune: Free Play, and Yahtzee With Buddies.
[47] In November 2018, Scopely launched Star Trek Fleet Command, partnering with CBS Interactive and DIGIT Game Studios.